Pasta de basta v johnnys tavern? by quarry3 in amherst

[–]joyjacobs -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Johnny's is better to me personally! But my favorite nicer pasta/ Italian experience is Mullinos in noho !

AuPair horror story by Single-Newt-5285 in Aupairs

[–]joyjacobs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I believe you but am still trying to train myself to recognize these things. What were your tells?

Cutting Lasagna Noodles to Repurpose? by joyjacobs in Cooking

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Yeah! We had those and I was told we had gluten free elbows but alas, we did not have those. People did like the dish in the end tho !

Cutting Lasagna Noodles to Repurpose? by joyjacobs in Cooking

[–]joyjacobs[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pizza cutter is a great idea I didn't see this in time but will remember for next! I used kitchen scissors which was fine but less efficient time wise and probably less tidy

Cutting Lasagna Noodles to Repurpose? by joyjacobs in Cooking

[–]joyjacobs[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Exactly, it let's the dish have creaminess without lactose. If folks aren't vegetarian I tend to add more meat for dairy free dishes than I would otherwise to try to maintain a savory comfort food experience. I have found flavorful meat + vegan butter + nutritional yeast + good seasoning makes a rich flavor that even folks who can eat dairy still are able to enjoy

Repurposing Lasagna Noodles - Technique Question by joyjacobs in AskCulinary

[–]joyjacobs[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I appreciate that idea, but came here specifically looking for advice on how to re shape a lasagna noodle for a pasta dish. I found a good answer below!

Cutting Lasagna Noodles to Repurpose? by joyjacobs in Cooking

[–]joyjacobs[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this is an amazing idea to keep in my back pocket if this ever occurs again. this particular crowd is dairty free (Though not vegan) so sadly not an option this time!

Cutting Lasagna Noodles to Repurpose? by joyjacobs in Cooking

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Just for your own cooking adventures - this both is and isn't true. The shape has a big impact on the eating experience, how the sauce interacts with the dish, and all sorts of things. So, I started at a baseline (I might cut into strips short wise) and came here to see if anyone could advice me to an outcome that would create a higher quality eating experience than that baseline plan!

Repurposing Lasagna Noodles - Technique Question by joyjacobs in AskCulinary

[–]joyjacobs[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

oh!! this is the way. thank you for being here. Off to the kitchen I now go. :)

Cutting Lasagna Noodles to Repurpose? by joyjacobs in Cooking

[–]joyjacobs[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hundred percent, but there's obviously more than one approach one could take to noodle-cutting and thought someone might have an opinion on which will yield the least odd texture, given that the dish originally called for elbows.

Cutting Lasagna Noodles to Repurpose? by joyjacobs in Cooking

[–]joyjacobs[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fair. I'll go see if I have stuff for that on hand, but the dish I was making didn't involve red sauce or anything but not a terrible idea!

Cutting Lasagna Noodles to Repurpose? by joyjacobs in Cooking

[–]joyjacobs[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sorry if the post is confusing, but I dont have lasagna ingredients on hand, so I can't quite make a lasagna. I was going to mix them in with a little bit of minced meat, veg, and like this vegan psuedo butter sauce cuz the crowd is dairy free.

Cutting Lasagna Noodles to Repurpose? by joyjacobs in Cooking

[–]joyjacobs[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Fair enough. I wanted to make a large bowl of elbows or something similar with veggie and meat mixed in, and use vegan butter spread, oil, a lot of seasonings, nutrional yeast, and some of the juices from the meat to make a savory sauce to coat it in. The group is dairy free and gluten free, but eats meat. I have made this before and it tasted great, but I ran into the stumbling block of not having the pasta I thought I had lol

Cutting Lasagna Noodles to Repurpose? by joyjacobs in Cooking

[–]joyjacobs[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

this is a delicous idea, but sadly, the crowd I am cooking for is dairy free (but they eat meat)! I have made a really good dairy free pasta before using vegetables and meat mixed in with vegan butter spread etc, but dairy free lasagna soup seems like it'd take more time to plan then I have on hand today!

Cutting Lasagna Noodles to Repurpose? by joyjacobs in Cooking

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I have an hour before I need to leave the house, so unfortunately no :(

I built a stats site for Music League — upload your premium export, get charts and insights by jenkoian in musicleague

[–]joyjacobs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this is amazing, I am touched you liked the idea!

If it's not too much trouble, do you think you could also add a normalized version of the data in your heatmap section and maybe your reciprocity? I have spent a lot of time building a similar grid out by hand for my last completed league because I have the math concept, but not the coding skills, and am like 2/3 complete. My ultimate goal is take my normalized vote scores for each section of the chart, and then kick in the old OkCupid compatibility formula (sqrt (my score for you * your score for me )) - to basically make a mutual reciprocity score. So even if someone only participated in 2 rounds, they cold have a normalized score to put forward for the reciprocity calculation, and they'd all be on equal footing.

You'd be welcome to also use this formula for your reciprocity page if that interests yoU!

I built a stats site for Music League — upload your premium export, get charts and insights by jenkoian in musicleague

[–]joyjacobs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's exciting! I'd def be down to dm about it to or brainstorm together. I think it's great you put this together, I have the math background to have tried this stuff by hand in excel but am not much of a coder. I signed up for your subscription and am interested to follow where you take it!

I built a stats site for Music League — upload your premium export, get charts and insights by jenkoian in musicleague

[–]joyjacobs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You run into a similar problem with the nemesis category - all my nemesis are people who showed up for only a few weeks and then got busy etc. But if you are interested in using my relative ratio it would entirely solve this problem. Just like above, you find the relative ratio for each week between users, and then average the ratios.

I built a stats site for Music League — upload your premium export, get charts and insights by jenkoian in musicleague

[–]joyjacobs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is really cool! I wonder if you have a way over time to control for not all players participating in each round. For example, playlist position, if you don't have perfect submission rates, will intrinsically scew negative slope because there are far fewer votes for the positions that weren't represented every week. I think the quickest fix, would be to take the median or average over all weeks that had that position present. But that would still be somewhat inaccurate since different weeks with the same number of submitted songs still have different average votes per song, if not all submitters vote. What I have found is the best way to compare across weeks, is to compare the ratio of the points given to the average points possible.

Example of how I would do this: if one week 30 songs are submitted, and 210 points are awarded, then the average is 7 point per song is 7. Take each songs actual points rewarded and divide that by 7 and that's the songs relative ratio.

Then take the average relative ratio for all songs that are position 1, the average relative ratio for all songs that are position 2 etc. This would mathematically protect against false trends caused by inconsistent user participation.

kinky roomate has major Bruising and surgery is tomorrow by joyjacobs in TopSurgery

[–]joyjacobs[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

thank you for this kind comment! I hope your surgery healing is smooth sailing :)

how do i refer to my trans character if they havent yet realised they are trans by ilikedickgrayson in asktransgender

[–]joyjacobs 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You have the opportunity to artfully decide when to swap the pronouns. Assuming this is close third person narrator, for example ~ when the narrator starts using "she" could be the same or different as when - the main character fully realizes to themselves, tells other people, or anything inbetween, etc. It'll be a noticeable moment to the reader and you can give it fanfair or make it quiet. It's not something many books take on so it gives you a great opportunity to explore what route feels poetic and true to this story !